rloru. nuv. Sor. Wkstern Australia, Xol. XIT. 
XVi 
WIk ‘11 satisfactory conclusions iii llio al)ovo dircctioiis have 
Imh'ii. roactuMl, tli(‘ Committee will lu' better equipped to study llic 
main problem for wliicti it was api)oiut(‘d, namely, the (‘ffect, it 
any, of deforestation on tlie salinity of the soil. 
(yigiied) N. T. .M. WILH^MOKK, 
ChaiiTiian. 
EXHIBITS DURING THE SESSION, 1925-26. 
(Onlv those ('xhihits are iiotml of \\hi«di details have been furiiisheai 
by the member makinji- tlu* exliibit.) 
August, 1925. 
I)i'. K. S. SI M 7t’//C7e from Coodardy. Large black 
cj'vstals twimuMl on (101), the two largest weighing 500 and 55(' 
grammes. ra(/o/iU(‘ from Lake Harlee and Lake Ballard. Finely 
fibrous botryoidal masses. Calcifc from Lake Austin. Finely 
fibrous, botryoidal masses. ])robably pseudomoiq)hous after aragonite. 
Mr. F. de C. CLARKL — The following Jurufisic /o*'.s'(7,s- collected 
in June at Xewinarracarra, near (leraldton, and tentatively identitied 
hy Dr. F. W. \Vl)itehous(‘ : iJfji'firtcKsia cthcridf/rf, 1). cchrardiatia, 
Kmihia (tiisiralid. K, cf. bfockesi, E. scmiovnata, Jijnibscitcs, l.yto- 
cvras, OioiicH affsauHiar, 0. dcprrsHus, Tclovcraa. This assein- 
blag(‘ ap])ears to confirm the middle Ba.jocian age ])reviously sug- 
gested fof these l)eds by Whitehouse (Jour. Hoy. Soc., W.A., vol. XI. 
( 1924), p. 12). An ammonite from the Gingin Chalk tentatively 
i(l<‘utitie(l by I.)r. Whitehouse as Eayoinizosia cf. daubrei. 
Mr. W. M. ('AHNF — Specimens of Cordyceps from PlaviiLs 
Siding, llotham River Railway, collected lyv H. Lansdell, June, 1925, 
]>arasitic on larvae of a hejiialid moth. The species is probably C. 
{/luinii Berk, though the specimens are larger than any yet recorded. 
Spi'cimens ai'e being forwarded to C. G. Lloyd, U.S. America, for 
d('tei'mination. This is the first record of Cordyceps occurring in 
Wk'stern Australia. 
*Mr. L. GLAUKHT — A female s])ecimen of Paranebalia longlpcs 
Millem. Sulim., a species tirst discovered by the “Challenger'’ in 
the \\ (‘st Indies, and since rc'cordc'd from manv very distant 
localities, including Torres Btrait. 
October, 1925. 
-Ml. W. L. SHLLTON — S])c“cinieus of Ombaiichc ceriiua, showing 
Ihe imture of the attaidi of its itarasitic roots upon hosts beiougiiig 
to the natural orders leguminosae, compositae and gramiiieae. 
